A few attentive users already noticed and asked us about two new downloads on openLCA nexus which we would also like to announce publicly! openLCA LCIA methods v2 With more than 70 LCIA methods openLCA LCIA methods v2 is the most comprehensive LCIA methods package...

On Friday 11th of May we will hold a webinar to introduce the Japanese idea database that has been published on openLCA Nexus earlier this year. IDEA v2 (Inventory Database for Environmental Analysis) is a hybrid inventory database that features both, statistical and...

We launched a new question-and-answer (Q&A) website on Life Cycle Assessment. ask.openLCA (https://ask.openlca.org/) is the official support platform for openLCA, openLCA nexus and the LCA Collaboration Server (non-confidential support requests). Still, we invite...

Corrected and improved aggregations of the regionalised Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method for water scarcity AWARE are available for download via our download section. AWARE is a regionalised Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method for water scarcity in...

The new release of openLCA includes major improvements e.g. better modelling of waste treatment and reuse as well as enhancements for the import and export of data. A comprehensive collaboration feature for simultaneous work on LCA studies is already integrated and...

Get early access to the LCA Collaboration Server The LCA Collaboration Server is a server application that complements openLCA to facilitate exchange of LCA datasets (e.g. flows, processes, product systems and entire LCA models) between users who work from different...

Recently, we received several support requests by openLCA users who faced minor problems in migrating LCA models based on ecoinvent 3.3 into ecoinvent 3.4. We’ve looked into this issue and published a revised version of ecoinvent 3.4 which is available for...

Last weekend we published the Japanese idea database on Nexus; in contrast to the evolutionary edition of ecoinent 3.4 (see below), this database contains unique processes mainly from a Japanese and Asian viewpoint, many not available in any other LCA database so far....

Happy to say that we have released ecoinvent 3.4 for openLCA, in openLCA Nexus, since last week, with updated data sets e.g. for electricity, and quite some data sets for non-European backgrounds. More details are described in our ecoinvent 3.4 documentation,...

WEBINAR: What´s new in PSILCA version 2? December 14, 5 pm (CET) December 19, 9 am (CET) We are happy to announce that we have launched the second version of the PSILCA database. PSILCA is an innovative database for Social Life Cycle Assessment aiming to provide...